Elasmosaur trivia

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Elasmosaurs descend from the Plesiosauia family, they flurished back in the late cretaceous age about 69-66 million years ago; they can be found in North America and Africa; they may have weighed up to 5100 lbs or 2.3 tons and they reached about 45 fee in length; their primary diet consisted of fish. The Elasmosaur was the longest member of the elasmosaur family and in fact, the longest-known plesiosaur. It was a marine reptile, swimming in the shallow Mesozoic seas. More than half of its total length was neck - 26 feet (8m) out of a total 45 feet (14m). Its neck had 71 vertebrae, many more than the earliest plesiosaurs, which had about 28 neck vertebrae. The neck probably served to move the head towards the prey with a very rapid darting movement. The head was relatively small, and the jaws had sharply-pointed teeth for catching fish. All our Elasmosaur fossils were found in the phosphate mines of Oued Zem Morocco.